Messa di Gloria (Puccini)

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Giacomo Puccini's Messa or Messa a quattro voci (now known as Messa di Gloria ) is a mass for orchestra and choir ( SATB ) as well as solo tenor and baritone. The multi-movement work is a complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass , comprising the following parts: Kyrie , Gloria , Credo , Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei .

Work history

Puccini came from a family of church musicians and composed the Messa as the final project of his studies at the Istituto Musicale Pacini . The premiere took place in Lucca on July 12, 1880. The Credo was written in 1878 and was originally conceived by Puccini as an independent work. The full manuscript of the Messa was never published by Puccini, and although the work was successful when it premiered, it was not heard again until 1952. There was a first performance again in Chicago and then in Naples. However, Puccini used material from the Messa in other contexts. The music of Agnus Dei was used in his opera Manon Lescaut and the Kyrie in Edgar .

At the end of the Second World War, Dante Del Fiorentino acquired an old copy of the manuscript from the Vandini family in Lucca, which he believed to be the original. The original manuscript itself belongs to the Puccini family and his daughter gave it to Ricordi , Puccini's publisher. A rights dispute broke out, which was eventually resolved by the division of rights between Ricordi and Mills Musik, the publisher of the Fiorentino script.

structure

I. Kyrie

II. Gloria

  1. Gloria in excelsis deodorant
  2. Laudamus te
  3. Gratias agimus tibi
  4. Gloria in excelsis deodorant
  5. Domine Deus
  6. Qui tollis peccata mundi
  7. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus
  8. Cum Sancto Spiritu

III. Creed

  1. Credo in unum Deum
  2. Et incarnatus est
  3. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis
  4. Et resurrexit
  5. Et in Spiritum Sanctum
  6. Et unam sanctam
  7. Et vitam venturi saeculi

IV. Sanctus e Benedictus

  1. Sanctus Dominus Deus
  2. Benedictus qui venit

V. Agnus Dei

Recordings

  • William Johns (tenor), Philippe Huttenlocher (baritone), Chorus & Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Michel Corboz (conductor), Erato, 1974
  • Kari Lövaas (soprano), Werner Hollweg (tenor), Barry McDaniel , Westdeutscher Rundfunk Choir, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eliahu Inbal (conductor), Philips Classics, 1975
  • Puccini: Messa di Gloria . José Carreras (tenor), Hermann Prey (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra , Claudio Scimone (conductor). Erato CD 48692
  • Thomas Dewald (tenor), Ulrich Hielscher (baritone), Kölner Kantorei, members of the Gürzenich Orchestra, Volker Hempfling (conductor), motet, 1987
  • Dénes Gulyas (tenor), Balazs Poka (baritone), Chœurs de la Radio-Télévision Hongroise, Orchester Symphonique de Budapest, András Ligeti (conductor), Hungaroton Classic, 1992
  • Roberto Alagna (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Antonio Pappano (conductor), EMI Classics, 2001
  • Antonello Palombi (tenor), Gunnar Lundberg (baritone), Hungarian Opera Orchestra and Radio Choir, Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), Naxos, 2002
  • Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Philippe Fourcade (baritone), choir and Orchester Symphonique de Radio France, Marcello Viotti (conductor), Paris 1992

Edits

In addition to versions for chamber ensemble (with choral strings and wind instruments) and a. By Ingo Schulz and Joachim Linckelmann there is also a version for solos, choir and harmony music (flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, double bass and timpani) by Johannes X. Schachtner .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. music art - the notes. Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Giacomo Puccini: Messa a 4 voci con orchestra ("Messa di Gloria"). Version for chamber orchestra arr. Joachim Linckelmann full score | Carus publishing house. Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
  3. SMP media GmbH, Hamburg & SMP systems GbR, Berlin - https://www.smpmedia.net/ : Puccini, Giacomo: MESSA DI GLORIA for solos, choir and harmony music | International music publishers Hans Sikorski. Retrieved January 17, 2018 .